"The first dairy building is a brick structure of 64x70 feet, two stories high, with basement, the structure covered with slate. It was dedicated at a meeting of the State Dairymen's Association held at the College, February 7, 1901. In the basement are the store rooms, cold storage, cheese curing room, lockers and wash rooms for students.On the first floor was to be found the home dairy room, butter room, cheese room, wash room and testing room. The second floor was given up to class rooms, officers and laboratories. The cost of this building was $15,000.
"The building was constructed mainly through the influence of Professor C. D. Smith, who had formerly been eminently successful in paying off a large mortgage, though the aide of a dairy of his own. The site between the old agricultural laboratory , on the south, and botanical laboratory , on the north." [1][2]
^ Beal, "A History of Michigan Agricultural College," Pg 276-77. Lansing Michigan, Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. 1915.
"The building was constructed mainly through the influence of Professor C. D. Smith, who had formerly been eminently successful in paying off a large mortgage, though the aide of a dairy of his own. The site between the old agricultural laboratory , on the south, and botanical laboratory , on the north." [1][2]